The Meripilus thread!

[sloth]

This oak was topped/pollarded I think two seasons ago. Threw out some new growth the following year, dead this year.

I suspect the merip in attendance liked the stress put upon the tree very much

[sloth]

This oak was topped/pollarded I think two seasons ago. Threw out some new growth the following year, dead this year. [ATTACH]100245[/ATTACH][ATTACH]100246[/ATTACH]

I suspect the merip in attendance liked the stress put upon the tree very much [ATTACH]100247[/ATTACH][ATTACH]100248[/ATTACH]

[sloth]

Just to add if anyone is interested, when this fruited last year it was 90 degrees further round the trunk to the left, about a metre from the base and 3 times the size. But no photo...

[sloth]

Just to add if anyone is interested, when this fruited last year it was 90 degrees further round the trunk to the left, about a metre from the base and 3 times the size. But no photo...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I had my suspicions for many years, today for the first time the Meripilus showed its ugly head, now this image shows that Meripilus can be lived with for MANY decades. This kind of root adaptation and compensation takes years to form, many many years.

 

Im am on the fence regarding the threats of Meripilus, not the fungi so much as the mechanical effects, as with most fungal issues of the bracketed variety it is the mechanics that cause the major issues.

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I had my suspicions for many years, today for the first time the Meripilus showed its ugly head, now this image shows that Meripilus can be lived with for MANY decades. This kind of root adaptation and compensation takes years to form, many many years.

 

Im am on the fence regarding the threats of Meripilus, not the fungi so much as the mechanical effects, as with most fungal issues of the bracketed variety it is the mechanics that cause the major issues.

 

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[Graham]

One I chanched upon today so no known history or if anything else has contributed towards its death.

 

 

[Graham]

One I chanched upon today so no known history or if anything else has contributed towards its death.

 

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[thorn]

Hi to everyone out there, Does anyone have any experience of Meripulus on platanus x hispanica I've got a big old specimen pushing 140 years old in a high target area . I felled a similar aged beech 3/4 years ago just down the way from this plane but the root plate on that was chocka with fruiting bodies absolutley bumper to bumper. This appears to be early on in the fruiting as at first I thought it was Grifola but I bruised it and went for a walk round to check the other trees and when I returned it had blackened up. I think that the plane will respond better to a reduction than a similar aged beech if that is what it comes to as it is in a very high target area . Thoughts ?

[David Humphries]

Hi to everyone out there, Does anyone have any experience of Meripulus on platanus x hispanica I've got a big old specimen pushing 140 years old in a high target area . I felled a similar aged beech 3/4 years ago just down the way from this plane but the root plate on that was chocka with fruiting bodies absolutley bumper to bumper. This appears to be early on in the fruiting as at first I thought it was Grifola but I bruised it and went for a walk round to check the other trees and when I returned it had blackened up. I think that the plane will respond better to a reduction than a similar aged beech if that is what it comes to as it is in a very high target area . Thoughts ?

 

I've come across Meripilus just once on London plane.

Wasn't one of our trees, and I believe it's still there unreduced maybe three/four years later, on a busy north London road.

 

Is there the possibility to airspade the associated roots to assess the level of decay in your tree ?

 

 

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